Twentieth–Century American Poetry

Reducere. Penguin's landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most ...

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emp...

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an import...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical ove...

Reducere. During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rub n Dar o's quest to renew the Spanish languag...

Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other p...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringi...

Envy, irritation, paranoia--in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated ...

Reducere. First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhib...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African A...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

Reducere. This appealing book treats the genesis of contemporary American taste, tolerance and energy. The Persistence of Liberty illuminates the idealistic ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Albert GelpiAuthor: Robinson JeffersRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has p...

Reducere. Gathering the work of more than fifty years, Ron Padgett's Collected Poems is the record of one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth-century Am...

Reducere. Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Paint...

Reducere. T. S. Elliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as ``The Love Song of J. Alfred P...

Situating Elizabeth Bishop's writing within a range of biographical, historical, literary and philosophical contexts, including the reception of he...

Reducere. DescriptionIt would be incorrect to say that Asian American literature began during the Civil Rights Movement. Since the late nineteenth century, C...

Reducere. Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Ma...

Reducere. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in A...

Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twen...

Reducere. Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in...

Reducere. An extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream best...

Reducere. "The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible ...

Reducere. Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students...

Reducere. This formidable anthology includes writing from 36 Native American poets: Frank Prewett, Louis (Little Coon) Oliver, George Clutesi, Mary Tallmount...

Reducere. From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal...

Reducere. Celebrate one of the most important periods of American cultural history: the Harlem Renaissance This package features beautiful illustrations, poe...

"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done we...

A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century.This volume is the first to re...

DescriptionThe early works of beloved poet Robert Frost, collected in one volume. The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets...

Reducere. Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totalin...

Reducere. The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...

Reducere. The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish ...

Reducere. Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish...

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

Reducere. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Wa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Lori Marie CarlsonEditor: Oscar HijuelosHere are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works o...

This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of th...

Reducere. Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American r...

Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major...

Reducere. In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico's Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Audre LordeAuthor: Pat ParkerEditor: Julie R. EnszerLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQI...

The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most my...

DescriptionPoetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freed...

Reducere. ``In America, black is a country, `` declared Amiri Baraka, who insisted that the lives and destinies of the nation's white and black citizens are ...

Reducere. An "incandescent....redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend" (Booklist, starred review)--Wallace Stevens, perhaps...

Award NameAmbassador Book AwardsAward categoryPoetryWinner of the C. Hugh Holman Award A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, R...

Reducere. The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American ...

Reducere. "The Garden Of The Prophet" is Khalil Gibran's 1933 sequel to "The Prophet", published posthumously. Intended to be a companion to his masterpiece,...

Reducere. A series of vignettes exploring African American life as it relates to social, political and family dynamics. For many, Cane is considered a litera...

Reducere. A series of vignettes exploring African American life as it relates to social, political and family dynamics. For many, Cane is considered a litera...

In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patri...

Reducere. Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains a...